4 hours ago, dalestephenson said:

We know from the announcements we'll be in the Iron Hills:

"it is up to you to explore the caverns of the Iron Hills"

I'd like to see us explore the Withered Heath in this cycle, and then go into Rhun next cycle.

I don't know...that could be interpreted a couple different ways. "It is up to you to explore the caverns of the Iron Hills, because this card game's certainly not going there."

(But seriously, I missed that line. Good to know!)

In this cycle I really hope for a Thranduil hero card and may be for a Radagast hero card ??

Actually something very cool would be a Radagast hero card that comes along with some Radagast-only toys that you can also play into the Radagast ally. That would be a nice way to revalorize the poor Radagast ally!

41 minutes ago, Yepesnopes said:

Actually something very cool would be a Radagast hero card that comes along with some Radagast-only toys that you can also play into the Radagast ally. That would be a nice way to revalorize the poor Radagast ally!

I think this is a no-brainer if they indeed want to make a Radagast hero (please be the case).

Unfortunately the Heroes in the cycle itself rarely have anything to do with the setting. But there are a ton of characters from this region that I would love to see as Heroes.

To name a handful: Thranduil, Dain (reprise) , Stonehelm, Grimbeorn, Gwaihir, Bofur, Radagast, maybe even old man Bain... It's actually a pretty extensive list.

7 hours ago, Yepesnopes said:

In this cycle I really hope for a Thranduil hero card and may be for a Radagast hero card ??

This feels like the cycle for these two! It would be cool if rather than buff Silvan who enter play, Thranduil gets a boost when Silvan leave play. Still supports the bounce mechanic, but in a different way than Celeborn. Also on my wish list would be for some more non-eagle creatures for Radagast to play with.

4 hours ago, Bunston said:

This feels like the cycle for these two! It would be cool if rather than buff Silvan who enter play, Thranduil gets a boost when Silvan leave play. Still supports the bounce mechanic, but in a different way than Celeborn. Also on my wish list would be for some more non-eagle creatures for Radagast to play with.

Rosgobel rabbits mount ?

In the past two cycles we got both a Corsair and a Harad hero. That definitely means an Easterling hero this cycle, right?

2 minutes ago, donkler said:

In the past two cycles we got both a Corsair and a Harad hero. That definitely means an Easterling hero this cycle, right?

Sure, why not? We've spent the past couple years killing their Warg-riders, they've got to be pretty friendly to the Free Peoples!

1 hour ago, Network57 said:

Sure, why not? We've spent the past couple years killing their Warg-riders, they've got to be pretty friendly to the Free Peoples!

Maybe we'll get the first fire-drake hero!

...or, if not directly related to Rhovanion, a hero version of Bill the Pony!

If we're getting Bard II, shouldn't we get Thorin III Stonehelm?

Would be great to have the Battle of Dale as part of this cycle.

At the printer three months now.

Well, this way it might not sell out in three days.

It's being printed on a dot matrix printer. They are a bit slower

At the printer four months tomorrow.

1 hour ago, Bullroarer Took said:

At the printer four months tomorrow.

Looks like the typesetting for the Rules is coming along nicely.

Finally On The Boat!

(Not that that really means anything time wise, but it seems like progress so I'll take it.)

Progress!

Looks like a lot has been updated. Several packs from Against the Shadow shipping now, and the Shadows of Mirkwood cycle moved up to on the boat. Packs from the Ring-maker that were stuck on the boat have been downgraded to at the printer. Still gonna be a long wait for Dwarrowdelf which is in waiting to reprint. But progress nonetheless!

11 hours ago, stimpaksam said:

Packs from the Ring-maker that were stuck on the boat have been downgraded to at the printer

Well, that boat must have gotten too close to the City of Corsairs.

3 hours ago, Wandalf the Gizzard said:

Well, that boat must have gotten too close to the City of Corsairs.

Now I'm imagining a bunch of pirates sitting around playing LotR!

43 minutes ago, Authraw said:

Now I'm imagining a bunch of pirates sitting around playing LotR!

They'll probably cheat

Just for comparison, The Forgotten Age was announced on January 31st (over two months later) and has a release date of May 10th.

That a little bit more than 3 months late. With a "first quarter of 2018" like announced it could be in June if it follow the same pattern.

I just keep imagining them on the back of the Celduin traveler’s canoe